Guided By Voices - Same Place The Fly Got Smashed Available On:LP m b v is a

m b v is a startling and beautiful metamorphosis of what was known of the my bloody valentine sound

After moving from his hometown of Pittsburgh to New York

While often jazz-adjacent

This box set showcases the four classic 7” singles that The Fall released on the Rough Trade label in the early 1980s

and the jangly 'someda'" with its hairshirt of vulnerability from a bad break-up

Guided By Voices - Same Place The Fly Got Smashed Available On:LP m b v is aOriginally released in 1990, Same Place The Fly Got Smashed was Guided By Voices fourth album in as many years. Roughly a concept album about an alcoholic named Joker Bob who goes on a bender, someone dies, and Bob gets the chair (the electrifying conclusion). From the moment the needle drops, the listener is served notice that this isnt going to be an easy listen, as an argument taped off of a TV cuts to a basement recording of a lone, blaring